JUDGMENT Kavala v. Turkey 10.12.2019 (no. 28749/18) see here SUMMARY In this case, Mr Kavala, a businessman who has been involved in setting up numerous nongovernmental organisations (“NGOs”) and civil-society movements which are active in promoting and protecting human rights, argued that his arrest and placement in pre-trial detention had been unjustified. The Court noted […]
JUDGMENT I.L. v. Switzerland 3.12.2019 (no. 72939/16) see here SUMMARY Temporary detention, legal provision and restrictions. The applicant was sentenced to 14 months in prison and to therapeutic treatment. The execution of the prison sentence was suspended due to monitoring of the therapeutic measure. Five years after the implementation of the measure in question, the […]
JUDGMENT Natig Jafarov v. Azerbaijan 7-11-2019 (no. 64581/16) see here SUMMARY Human rights defenders and the ECHR. Arrest of a prominent activist, his temporary detention and confinement in a metal cage in court. His case is similar to that of other opposition and civil society activists in Azerbaijan, cases that the Court has already dealt […]
JUDGMENT (GRAND CHMABER) Ilias and Ahmed v. Hungary 21.11.2019 (no. 47287/15) see here SUMMARY Asylum application, refoulement and safe third country. The applicants applied for asylum in Hungary, remaining in the period of examination of their applications in a transit zone at the Hungarian-Serbian border. The applications were rejected on the ground that the State responsible for examining […]
JUDGMENT Z.A. and others v. Russia 21/11/2019 (no. 61411/15) see here SUMMARY Four men were held in the Moscow airport transit zone for a long time while authorities were examining their asylum applications. None of them, in the end, remained in Russia. Unanimous violation of the right to liberty and security and the prohibition of […]
JUDGMENT Razvozzhayev v. Russia and Ukraine and Udaltsov v. Russia 19.11.2019 (no. 75734/12, 2695/15, 55325/15) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the conviction of two men for organising “mass disorder” for their part in May 2012 opposition protests and resultant disturbances in central Moscow, an incident which has been at the centre of several earlier […]
JUDGMENT Porchet v. Switzerland 7.11.2019 (no. 36391/16) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the applicant’s pre-trial detention in a 48-hour police custody facility and his compensation claim. By way of compensation for having unduly spent 16 days in an unsuitable facility, the applicant was granted a reduction of eight days in his prison sentence on […]
JUDGMENT G.B. and others v. Turkey 17.10.2019 (no. 4633/15) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the immigration detention of a mother and her three young children pending their deportation from Turkey. They had been released after nearly four months following a series of challenges about the lawfulness of their detention before the domestic courts. The […]
JUDGMENT Korneyeva v. Russia 08.10.2019 ( no. 72051/17) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the applicant being convicted of two separate offences originating in the similar circumstances of an unauthorised rally. The Court in particular rejected the Government’s argument that the duplication of the proceedings against the applicant had been justified by the distinct areas […]
JUDGMENT Kaak and others v. Greece 3/10/2019 (no. 34215/16) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the conditions of detention of Syrian, Afghan and Palestinian nationals in the “hotspots” of Vial and Souda (Greece), and the lawfulness of their detention in those camps. The Court considered that the authorities had done all that could reasonably be […]
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